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...some candidates with pro connections. The Athletic Department is working diligently to contact and interview hopeful candidates. Unfortunately specific candidates cannot be discussed at this time because it would be counter-productive to the selection process.”The players themselves have been trying to conduct business as usual as they wait to help decide on the new coach.Lifting sessions have begun and individual workouts will begin soon. Assistant coaches Lamar Reddicks and Billy Holden are still around despite the uncertainty of their future positions with the program.Organized pick-up games have been sparse, but that is due mainly...
...national pastime of shopping, but bored of brand-name stores? Then check out the nine-month-old Market of Artists and Designers, better known as MAAD, maad.sg. Held on the first weekend of every month at the Red Dot Design Museum on Maxwell Road, this is not your usual rummage sale of bad macramé and lopsided pottery. Instead, MAAD is an outdoor bazaar that stresses cutting-edge work from budding fashion designers, graphic artists, painters, jewelry makers, housewares makers and product designers. Before they go on sale, the items need the tick of approval from a panel of curators...
...also something bracingly therapeutic in Cowell's frequently funny spree. Audiences will also notice that CHAD is played by Toby Schmitz with an American accent, and encoded in the drama is a political critique of Australia's relationship with the U.S., but one that doesn't follow the usual President Bush-bashing. "Well, America's our CHAD at the moment," says Cowell. "And it's not their fault, it's ours. That's what the play is presenting, I guess, in a very unsubtle, wild and completely hilarious manner...
...like watching a killer whale launch itself with barely a splash completely out of the water. Instead of the usual roar of the engines, the airliner seemed to sigh, as if there were no tension in its wings, which support 811,000 lbs during the demonstration flight. Whoa, the whale can fly! And wait a sec, I'm on the whale...
Tsvangirai was beaten after being detained at a protest rally in the capital, Harare, on March 11. Condemnation came not just from the usual quarters such as Britain and the U.S. South Africa, which has long advocated a softly-softly approach to Mugabe, finally issued something akin to a reprimand, calling on all parties to respect the rule of law. (In private, the language is understood to have been more forceful.) The current chairman of the African Union, the Ghanaian President John Kufuor, called Zimbabwe "embarrassing." These rebukes are mild, but compared to past silence or support for Mugabe, they...